Wednesday, March 28th 2007

Yahoo! Offers Unlimited Email Storage

As Yahoo! Mail approaches its 10-year anniversary, the company has announced that it will begin providing Yahoo! Mail users with unlimited email storage starting in May 2007. When Yahoo! Mail launched 10 years ago, users got a 4MB of storage for their entire mailbox. Today, the company is aiming for unlimited mailboxes. Yahoo! Mail is currently the world's largest provider of email accounts. Yahoo! Mail has over 250 million global users.
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5 Comments on Yahoo! Offers Unlimited Email Storage

#1
WarEagleAU
Bird of Prey
Its kind of hard to send 1gb of info to someone through email, thats why there are torrents, p2p, ftp, etc. Also, 1mb is indeed to small. Sometimes I have to really scaleback the quality and size of an image, because I cant send them. While I use my yahoo email for fantasy football, ebay and what not, I use my regular email alot more than that.

Im assuming they are offering this unlimited storage since huge amounts of spam are sent to us everyday. Some folks I know, even though they have spam filter on, would send it to a folder to store it, they got so upset with the amounts.
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#2
OnBoard
WarEagleAUIts kind of hard to send 1gb of info to someone through email, thats why there are torrents, p2p, ftp, etc. Also, 1mb is indeed to small. Sometimes I have to really scaleback the quality and size of an image, because I cant send them. While I use my yahoo email for fantasy football, ebay and what not, I use my regular email alot more than that.

Im assuming they are offering this unlimited storage since huge amounts of spam are sent to us everyday. Some folks I know, even though they have spam filter on, would send it to a folder to store it, they got so upset with the amounts.
Spam mail doesn't count for mail quata on yahoo!.

Oh and attachment size limit is 10MB, "Total Size: 0KB of 10MB" put one pdf over 2megs and it was fine. The 10MB is also the total attachment size.

I could swear I've used yahoo mail more that 10 years, modems were in 14.4K time then, but can't remember how old were they. If it's really 10 years coming then I must have started using in the first year : o (still have the same mail address and the main one I use)
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#3
Polaris573
Senior Moderator
I rarely get SPAM. I don't think I have more than 10Mb stored in all three of my e-mail accounts combined.
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#4
Benpi
Well, we all know who is to thank for this ------ GOOGLE! If it weren't for google, Yahoo wouldn't even have 250MB right now.
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#5
Helmi
Completely BonkersAre there still limitations on the max size of attachments?
Yeah, all these huge inboxes are completely useless when you cannot even send an email that's larger than 10MB.
I have yet to find a free email service to allow this.
It's a shame, really, how else are you supposed to send stuff to people when you can't currently reach them (IM for instance)?

Basically, you still have to rely on the Snail Mail and send a letter with a CD/DVD :/
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